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Planet Earth: 2000 A.D., Will Mankind survive?

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I have read many of Hal Lindsey books. Anyone who has been wondering about the weather and peace talks in the Middle East needs this important piece of information.

planeet aarde 2000AD is a magnific book!!Hal lindsey is a good writer,and realist,I hope that many people can read this book,so they can see that we are not far away from the climax of the history,and that God loves us for what, or who we are.And remember...God never leave us.Isn't that good news?Maranatha.Halleluja!!

Hal Lindsey was very blessed by God with much insight and access to many facts. His book was not dogmatic, nor was it full of candy-coated truth. It was full of hard core truth. Truth is not to be candy-coated. People are frightened of the End Times because 1.) they are not sure they're saved 2.) many know deep down that they are coming soon... Therefore, they want people to preach messeges of comfort rather than messeges full of hard facts. People remember that God is gracious, but they forget that God is also a JUST God. Hal used up-to-date facts and was very good at pointing out how the liberal media and politicians cover up the ugly truth. They hide the attrocities they cause from the eyes of the people. They deceive the people. Very well-written piece of literature.

If one is going to read with any degree of serious interest the genre of prophetic interpretation, then certain allowances must be made. Adjustments for elapsed time, language, technology, and other such major differences in frames of reference over the ages, need be accommodated by writer and reader alike.

Now, nearing 2006, it's clear that radical islamist hatred towards Jews and Christians has been amplified by Arab oil money, and that the crisis is very great. Equally significant, the U.S. is without reliable allies through the European Union. Both these ideas were major planks in the Lindsey outlook.

Politically, not biblically, the question that arises is does the United States isolate itself and put its dwindling and over-indebted assets behind its defenses, or does it stand virtually alone in its imperfect but noble campaign for liberty and equality of opportunity for fellow human beings?

It's not an easy debate to resolve. Does a leading society model its global role around selfish gain, negative prophesy, or higher mortal and spiritual principles? It's really an open question, and Lindsey seems to leave it that way.

The answer to this book is "Yes." Here we are. Still. Lindsey missed his 1984 prediction in "The Late Great Planet Earth" and "1980s: Countdown to Armageddon." He has missed it again. It has been 10 years, it is about time for another one. The one star I gave the book was a thank-you for putting the date-set on the front cover so we don't have to sort through all the pages looking for it.

This might be the most disturbing book I've ever read.

This book is biased and one sided. Its far out predictions are based on selective and creative interpretation of Biblical texts, and a paranoid view of current and past events.

Some of the author's more far out theories:
- The spirit of the 60s is demonically inspired
- The campaign against nuclear weapons was bankrolled by communists
- Christians are being systemically persecuted worldwide, but he says nothing about how radical Christians are persecuting Muslims, supporters of abortion, multilateralists and more
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali is the most powerful man on the planet (in 1996), and the US is 'pliant' to the UN (any casual observer would be able to see that the UN Secretary-General has little power compared to the President of the United States, and if anything, it is the US that bullies the UN by refusing to pay its dues, imposing all sorts of conditions on it, stomping out of UN bodies like a petulant child, manipulating the Security Council and more)
- The World Bank forces sterilisation and abortion
- UFOs are demons

Hal Lindsey demonises many groups including Communists, Muslims, Humanists, European integrationists, Liberals, non-fundamentalist Christians, and the left in general.

Many of Hal Lindsey's far out conspiracy theories are putatively proven and corroborated, not only with selective and creative interpretation of Scripture, but by way of his unnamed "primary intelligence sources", which are constantly referred to but never described in any but the vaguest of terms, and which know of some very unbelievable things, like Rafsanjani's proclaiming that Muslims want to take over the world.

I am trying my best to be objective here, but the sheer paranoia and negative vibes contained in this book really put me off. Only buy this book if you don't already have another of Hal Lindsey's works (they all say the same thing, apparently, and he reuses choice paragraphs from book to book, with slight modifications to show that his interpretation of prophecy was right when it actually wasn't).